Edible Gardening

I'm looking for turkish cucumber seeds if anyone can help?A fella gave me a TC plug plant & the cuces have been beautiful. I want to grow lots next year!Ive only found one place online (abroad) that sells them & theyre out of stock.Any ideas?

Living in Scotland it's a bit iffy growing Sweet Corn outside unless we get a good summer (not 1 this year!) The Sweet Corn I am growing in the greenhouse borders (Swift) has been gorgeous, so sweet and tender very few have even made the kitchen having been scoffed straight off the plant. The...

Has anyone grown Sweet Pepper F1 Sweet Sunshine? I am growing 10 different varieties of sweet peppers and chillies. 9 of the varieties look great, all have plenty of fruit and flowers. I have 4 pots of Sweet Sunshine which to be honest look pretty pathetic. They are about 3 inches high and seem...

Radish, cabbage, carrot all flowering. Carrot pulled to reveal tiny white root. Should have left the flower to open at least it would have been pretty. Torrential rain past few days so expecting blight any day now

hi all, just wondered what to do about some of my strawberry plants; they have been really sturdy and produced a moderate amount of fruit for quite a few years now. ive managed to plant creepers from them, and this year have around 35-40 plants all flowering and producing fruit. However, one or...

I only got this wee apple sapling 2 wks ago - bought as "pre-bonsai" & looked very healthy in the photo prior to buying. Originally in a tiny bonsai pot, I just repotted it into a slightly larger one a few days back. But pretty much from the minute I got it, it started developing brown areas...

I've been thinking about what I will do with my pallet fence, when I've made it. I want to plant it - I was thinking aubretias and the like, using some slats to create troughs in the fence itself.Then I thought grapes! Would a grapevine be ok in the north Lincolnshire climate? Where the...

It has been really warm and humid here, plus a lot of rain over the last few days. Have trimmed off affected leaves - hopefully I'm either wrong or early enough to control it :-/

See a pic of my garden below. The garden faces south and this pic was taken just a few mins ago. The two temp raised beds to the right will be positioned in the next day or two. The nearest one gets sun from 7.30am - 4pm and then a filtered bit of sun around 6pm.The other gets a little less...

Question in the Rose forum Hi Guys,I was hoping you might be able to help me. I am a complete Gardening Novice. And am thus making a lot of mistakes but learning a long the way. In march I bought some, rasberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants in the sales from B&Q. Not knowing what I was...

Last year was my first growing veg, I grew peas and beans. This year that same bed has good soil as I had added a little compost. I now have two more beds available, and I want to grow Broccoli - Sun king F1, baby leeks, spinach perpetual.Both these two new beds have extremely heavy clay soil...

Last year I successfully grew witloof chicory. I sowed it in June, dug it up in November and planted the roots in buckets in a shed. Now I can eat lovely salad: witloof with (cooking) apple and olive oil - easy, seasonal, lovely!I do seem to have left some root-bits in the ground however, and...

weve had a problem wih pear scab on out 2 Williams tree`s the last 2 years (it never effects our conference tree) , I tried spaying last year with sythane but I think I was too late - the fruit had already set and was showing signs of damagewhen should I start spraying this year ? when the...

I'm looking to plant a grape vine, this spring, it will be outside down here in Devon. Any suggestions appreciated either black or white, may even run to one of each.

Hi all I just came across this article about maple leaves which apparently they are eaten in Japan. Is there any other leaf that could be edible cooked in the same way do you reckon? article:

Is there any benefit by takeing the crown out of sprouts i have heard that it helps the buttons to swell any ideas cheers all mick

hi folks, I've got a thornless blackberry growing in a pot on my balcony and dreams of eating delicious fresh fruit from a plant which has taken over the whole building. But no, lovely new growth in the spring was soon knobbled by what appears to be a tiny tiny white moth, the leaves are...

I'm doing good this year! Yippeeee!!!! My 3 cherry and 2 plum tomato plants are coming along nicely and beginning to flower.my basil pot:Left to right: green beans, carrots/peppers, green beans/courgettes Then on the stoned area is tatties, strawberry plant, 2 x raspberry plants, kiwi...

Hi all, I have 6 squash seedlings in my greenhouse that I grew from seed. Having never grew these before I'm not quite sure what to expect. Can I continue to grow them in the greenhouse or are they to go outside? Do some squashes climb and some grow low? Anyone grown squash?Gazania

Bought a number of F1 Cucumber plants ... all kicked off well ... then 2 weeks in one of them looks particularly sickly ... limp leave with discolouration ... as per pic.In case it was mineral take up, I sprayed last 3 days with Epsom salts .... but no improvement ... any clues ...the nearest...